Yearly Archive for 2010

: 2010

Nine Queen Anne boys had an experience they will never forget this month when they snowshoed with backpacks from Paradise base camp up Dead Horse Creek, dug caves in the snow and spent the night on Mt. Rainier without tents. This was no accident. It is an annual outing planned with adult supervision by the boys of Queen Anne Boy Scout Troop 72. …

Want to mingle, chat and even dance with your neighbors? The opportunity for that and more will present itself on April 17th at the “Mix-it Up for McClure Middle School” community dance party. A mere $20 buys you a ticket for tasty treats, drinks and the chance to bid on some fun silent auction items, such as gift certificates to local businesses or a football signed by Seattle Seahawk John Carlson. Dust off those dancing shoes and get ready to shake your groove thing. …

On Saturday March 13th, Queen Anne Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts walked assigned routes in the neighborhood and placed door hangars on homes, kindly asking for food and toiletries to be left on their porches. On the morning of the 20th, the scouts returned to gather the donations. …

Among piles of paperwork and shelves crowded with books on edu-topics, David Elliott’s office at Coe Elementary is crammed with pictures of baseball teams he has coached, crayoned drawings, and letters with childish handwriting careening all over the page. There’s a lot of stuff that he is going to need to haul out of here at the end of June when he moves to become principal at Queen Anne Elementary. …

After a resident of the West Roy Street corridor in Lower Queen Anne/Uptown was attacked and robbed back on February 23, residents in the area have come together with plans to start a block watch. Resident J.P. Flores has spearheaded the effort, saying in an e-mail to those interested that he is “very excited to see a response from our community.” He added that “it is very good to see that not all big city people have succumbed to apathy.” …

With panhandling legislation in the news recently, I’ve been paying more attention to the people I share a sidewalk with in my Uptown neighborhood, especially the people asking me for an item that used to be based on a Gold Standard – my American money. …